Category: Cyber & Information Security

Cyber security is right at the top of the list of priorities for law firm compliance teams these days. Legal sector security research advise the statistics on cyber-crime are alarming. One in four law firms have suffered a cyber-attack and, of these, one in ten have had money stolen from them. The Solicitors Regulation Authority…Read more

Presenting your CISO reports is a great opportunity to get face-time with the board and progress your career. Primarily, however, it’s a forum in which to highlight and validate your approach to information security and to take a steer from the people running the company. Done well, your CISO reports…Read more

The importance of ICS security has until now, never been a major focus – the primary focus in technology manufacturing was always to obtain efficiency. From a manufacturing perspective, hackers who infiltrate and manage to shut down a process or disrupt a supply can be costly in several ways…Read more

Energy and Utilities providers are in a unique position. Our services; gas, electricity and water, are essential to the basic functioning of society. Criminal gangs and nation states see this sector as a prized target; suspending a service such as electricity, even for a few hours, would cripple society…Read more

CNI security attacks aren’t always directly against the main target. They can affect other businesses that are part of the supply chain too, as they may be used as a softer route to gaining access to a larger organisation. So this means it’s important that organisations at all levels take cyber security seriously. Even if a company is not involved directly in CNI the trend towards…Read more

Cyber security is increasingly important in every industry but, over the past few years, companies in fintech have become a priority target for cybercriminals. The volume of  sensitive data that needs to be controlled is increasing. Electronic transactions and transfers are now part of everyday life. The data that is used has to be processed and then…Read more

loud Architectures such as AWS are well suited to the processing requirements for Biopharma Companies, because their data processing usually involve very high quantities of data analysis. In Biopharma the data to be protected will be slightly different to Pharma. Large molecule drugs are optimised versions of endogenous proteins. Producing them is…Read more

The defence and aerospace industry continues to grow in scale with commensurate responsibility for keeping highly classified information safe. This makes it an exciting target for cyber criminals and consequently means that considerable resources are devoted to systems to keep this data safe. In fact, the cyber security…Read more

As we become more and more reliant on the internet for our everyday lives, activities such as shopping and banking online are the norm. This offers convenience for the consumer and savings for the service provider, but it also brings opportunity for the cybercriminal. Banks, in particular, are an obvious target and experience a high volume of attacks, a worrying proportion of which are…Read more

Banks everywhere are pushing more and more of their customers towards online and mobile banking services. While these offer customers greater ease-of-use and accessibility to a whole host of features, a greater reliance on online and mobile banking brings with it some major banking security concerns, particularly for the CISO.  Banks experienced a…Read more